"The HackberryPi_CM5 project is a RaspberryPi Compute Module SBC(single board computer) powered handheld computer with reuse of original keyboard from old Blackberry phones. The goal of the project is to create a portable linux-powered computer that lets the user gain a deeper understanding of Linux and explore the architecture of hardware, software, and the Linux kernel."

https://github.com/ZitaoTech/HackberryPiCM5 #Linux #RaspberryPi

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Two HackberryPi_CM5 devices side-by-side oriented near 45 degrees. One has a black case, the other silver. They look like a jumbo sized Blackberry phone, with larger screen and keyboard.

Want to get ArchLinux running on your shiny new clicky Raspberry Pi 500+ with KDE Plasma and BTRFS subvolumes instead of ext4?

Turns out, it's not very difficult.

Check out the forum thread (remember those?) here on Interfacing Linux:
https://interfacinglinux.com/community/sbcsoftware/archlinux-kde-plasma-btrfs-on-raspberry-pi-500

#raspberrypi #archlinux #archlinuxarm #linux

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Screenshot of System Settings showing information about ArchLinux system installed on a Raspberry Pi 500+.

Are the Russians using #RaspberryPI (or just #ARM) chips in their drones? Can't think of that many British made microprocessors in recent times (alas, it doesn't surprise me that UK companies are likely selling them to Russia if it makes them a profit)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5e9zlpz6eo

Open Printer is a repairable, open-hardware inkjet powered by Raspberry Pi, built for makers who want freedom from vendor lock-in.
https://linuxiac.com/open-printer-promises-freedom-from-proprietary-cartridges/

#printing #raspberrypi #opensource

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Open Printer is a repairable, open-hardware inkjet powered by Raspberry Pi, built for makers who want freedom from vendor lock-in.

#RaspberryPi OS Is Now Based on #Debian 13 “Trixie” and Has a Fresh New Look https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-os-is-now-based-on-debian-13-trixie-with-fresh-new-look

#Linux #OpenSource

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Screenshot of Raspberry Pi OS showing the Main Menu.

Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. 🇦🇺

Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

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A woman standing in front of an enormous knitted map of the night sky, with constellations labelled

Curious about Raspberry Pi and Tailscale? Discover how to transform your Raspberry Pi into a subnet router and exit node, enhancing your self-hosting capabilities. Dive into this slice of delicious Pi and explore the possibilities! #RaspberryPi #Tailscale #selfhosting

https://youtu.be/dneNjDu4HKU

Current #raspberrypi project taking shape. Just 2 more elements and can connect 5 SATA drives to my Pi5 #Geeworm X1009. Not expecting blistering speeds but as goal is low powered redundant copy of my main media server that's fine

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raspberry Pi5 sitting on a Hargrove cage with 5 Harddisks ready to be connected

In case you missed it, there’s now a Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Compact for the Pi 5, allowing you to add an SSD *and* a fan, and still close the official case 🥳

(The old official M.2 HAT did not fit in the case.)

You still lose the GPIO pins and UART port, though, so the (third-party) NVMe base might still be the better option for some use-cases: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvme-base?variant=41219587178579

I’ll probably move my main Pis from SD card to SSD soon, mainly for the better reliability.

#raspberrypi

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picture showing a Raspberry Pi 5 with M.2 HAT+ Compact and official Raspberry Pi 256 GB SSD

The premium Raspberry Pi 500+ is an RGB backlit mechanical keyboard with 16GB RAM Pi 5 and 256GB SSD inside.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/raspberry-pi-500-mechanical-keyboard-pc?v1

#RaspberryPi #tech #linux

Raspberry Pi 500+ announced as their premium desktop keyboard PC https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/raspberry-pi-500-announced-as-their-premium-desktop-keyboard-pc/

#RaspberryPi #Linux #Arm

Anybody seen Pi 3b (not 3b+) not network boot unless you unplug and replug the Ethernet cable after applying power?

#raspberrypi #homelab

Having rack mounted 5 of my Raspberry Pis recently I now have a bunch of "spare" Pimoroni Pibow cases

Must resist the urge to just by more Pi

#raspberrypi

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2 Ninja (black) and 3 Rainbow (multi-coloured) layered acrylic Pibow cases stood on edge

The #OverUnder series is back. This week, @KevinGimbel will give his opinion on:

-#Sony cameras
-#RaspberryPi
- B&W #photography
-#k9s
-#Macchiato #coffee

#blogging #blog #fediverse

This is 89/100 post for the #100DaysToOffload challenge.
https://lazybea.rs/ovr-032

#RaspberryPi Zero 2w now supported out-of-the-box under #OpenBSD!
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=175697843902360&w=2

Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5 https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250903064251 #openbsd #arm64 #rpi #rpi5 #raspberrypi #raspberrypi5 #development #pisupport #freesoftware #libresoftware #hacking

TIL that one person has been maintaining drivers for Google's AIY hardware for Raspberry Pi ever since the tech giant dumped the project in 2021.

I kind of wish I'd known about this a couple of years ago when I finally threw out a bunch of AIY Voice Kit and AIY Vision Kit hardware, thinking it was boat-anchor material.

https://github.com/viraniac/aiyprojects-raspbian

#RaspberryPi #Google #AIYVision #AIYVoice

Finally, I got #NeXTSTEP 3.3 running on a #RaspberryPi 5 with #Previous emulator. It was a loong road to go! 🤓

Next step (g): Enable color mode.

And now in full color emulating the #NeXT Dimension board. This is so cool! 😃

The chess app is nearly the same like the current one from #macOS.

#NeXTSTEP #RaspberryPi #Previous

Question for headless Raspberry Pi users. I'm running Debian bookworm, connect via ssh over local wifi, it works a treat. I now want to set it up to be used elsewhere on another wifi network. How do I add the second wifi's details when wpa_supplicant.conf isn't used anymore?

#RaspberryPi #WiFi #SSH #Debian #RPI

I am sure I just recently set up this server. Time flies.

Dabei bin ich überzeugt, es war erst gerade dass ich diesen Server einrichtete. Die Zeit vergeht.

#debian #debian13 #linux #raspberrypi

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Screenshot of a terminal with the output from sudo apt update. It says the repository changed from old stable to oldoldstable.

"I feel like I’ve found a way to do a Dante-less audio-over-ethernet setup that cost me nothing" – creative open-source problem solving from Ubuntu Studio's @eickmeyer, using a Raspberry Pi + JackTrip.

https://ericheickmeyer.com/2025/08/19/raspberry-pi-as-a-networked-audio-interface/

#ubuntu #raspberrypi #dante

Raspberry Pi has introduced a smaller version of its streamlined portrait touch display for its computers - 720p resolution, support for 5-point touch gestures, and a snip at just $40.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/raspberry-pi-touch-display-2-specs-price

#raspberrypi #tech

I've got a nerd #AskFedi question, expectations are high since we are on the Fediverse 😘

Situation: I’ve tagged mothers keys with bluetooth trackers. I hate this stuff, but she’s suffering from dementia and I also need some sleep. I'm using android trackers, e.g. the Google Find Hub. I hate this too.
#Caregiving #Alzheimers #Dementia

Question: How can I improve the bloody “home tracking abilities” of these #%#@! trackers on Google Find network?
#Bluetooth #Android #RaspberryPi #FediHelp

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Okay, so let me tell you about my doorbell, from a #networking perspective.

When you push the button by the door, it sends a message over the #zigbee wireless mesh network in my house. It probably goes through a few hops, getting relayed along the way by the various Zigbee light switches and "smart outlets" I have.

Once it makes it to my utility closet, it's received by a Zigbee-to-USB dongle, through a USB hub (a simple tree network) plugged into an SFF PC. From there, it gets fed into zigbee2mqtt, which, as the name implies, publishes it to my local #mqtt broker.

The mqtt broker is in the small #kubernetes cluster of #raspberrypi nodes I run in my utility closet. To get in (via a couple of #ethernet switch hops), it goes through #metallb, which is basically a proxy-ARP type service that advertises the IP address for the mqtt endpoint to the rest of my network, then passes the traffic to the appropriate container via a #linux veth device.

I have #HomeAssistant, running in the same Kubernetes cluster, subscribed to these events. Within Kubernetes, the message goes through the CNI plugin that I use, #flannel. If the message has to pass between hosts, Flannel encapsulates it in VXLAN, so that it can be directed to the correct veth on the destination host.

Because I like #NodeRed for automation tasks more than HomeAssistant, your press of the doorbell takes another hop within the Kubernetes cluster (via a REST call) so that NodeRed can decide whether it's within the time of day I want the doorbell to ring, etc. If we're all good, NodeRed publishes an mqtt message (more VXLANs, veths, etc.)

(Oh and it also sends a notification to my phone, which means another trip through the HomeAssistant container, and leaving my home network involves another soup of acronyms including VLANs, PoE, QoS, PPPoE, NAT or IPv6, DoH, and GPON. And maybe it goes over 5G depending on where my phone is.)

Of course something's got to actually make the "ding dong" sound, and that's another Raspberry Pi that sits on top of my grandmother clock. So to get *there* the message hops through a couple Ethernet switches and my home WiFi, where it gets received by a little custom daemon I wrote that plays the sound via an attached #HiFiBerry board. Oh but wait! We're not quite done with networking, because the sound gets played through PulseAudio, which is done through a UNIX domain socket.

SO ANYWAY, that's why my doorbell rarely works and why you've been standing outside in the snow for five minutes.

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A nondescript round white button (a doorbell) mounted on a vertical wood member. To the left a part of a door is visible, and to the right, bricks.

I have a plan for a travel #networking setup, though I won’t be able to make it work for this holidays.

I need a relatively portable router (#GLiNet?) glued to a low power #RaspberryPi (3-4 would be good enough) for 4G/LTE, decent WiFi and #ADGuard + #Jellyfin.

I guess there’s always a new rabbit to chase…🤡

Argon are well known for their high-quality Raspberry Pi cases and accessories. Now they're making a 14-inch laptop powered by a Compute Module 5.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/argon-one-up-raspberry-pi-cm5-laptop

#RaspberryPi #linux #tech

I'm like a week into messing around with my old Raspberry Pi and it's going okay, It's an old Pi so thinking of just using it to run a little NAS but screwed up the files the other day, Luckily just got rid of a lot of old MEDIA files I had of edits I no longer care about.

Today's goal is to get that back up and running, the future goal is to get a Raspberry Pi to run a Fediverse Instance that can be transfered between locations... Not sure how I'll pull that off but I'll do my best.

#RaspberryPi #NAS #Tech #Technology #SelfHosting

New blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/tinkerbell-5-hookos-direct-boot/

I'm trying to directly boot Tinkerbell's HookOS without using EFI/iPXE. I'm failing to, but I have a plan.

This post is mostly a bit of detective work on why HookOS' initramfs is not booting properly. The answer is: The Raspberry Pi's firmware.

#Blog #HomeLab #raspberrypi #tinkerbell

Take a look at the latest post from the #Ubuntu Foundations team, where Ravi outlines their recent work on #raspberrypi

The post looks at the team's commitments to maintain parity for peripheral support with Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu Pro for Raspberry Pi, and future plans!

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-on-raspberry-pi-summer-25-update/64395

Seems that the 96 MB limit really is enforced by the firmware. See the end of this bug: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/375

So it looks like I will need to get into the "two-stage-boot" idea, with a small basic initramfs which loads the real image via HTTP and then mounts and pivots to it.

#HomeLab #raspberrypi

Okay, there it is. With UART logging for the 2nd stage boot loader enabled, the problem becomes clear in this log line:

MESS:00:00:55.768976:0: initramfs loaded to 0x29440000 (size 0x5bbfa44)

The size is ~96 MB. But the initramfs is actually 122 MB. So it's the Pi firmware doing the truncation here.

So next step, possibly a small first stage loader with a tftp client and then doing a pivot root?

#HomeLab #raspberrypi